Written questions

2,582 written questions tabled, most recent first.

13 Jul 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the need for additional guidance to ensure that post-war low-rise council blocks, not covered by the Building Safety Act, are proactively inspected

9 Jul 2026 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

British Nationals Abroad: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress she has made to introduce a Special Envoy for Complex and Arbitrary Detentions.

22 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing Ombudsman Service: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to improve the standards and tackle delays in the Housing Ombudsman Service.

29 May 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Trastuzumab Deruxtecan: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies to lower the unit cost of the drug Enhertu.

20 May 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps his Department has taken to help those migrating from legacy benefits to universal credit.

22 Apr 2026 · Treasury

Banks: Misconduct

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help ensure that regulators hold banks to account for financial misconduct.

28 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle excessive household water bills based on rateable values.

13 Jan 2026 · Department for Education

Children: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help improve safeguarding practices in nurseries and early years settings.

19 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Service Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to help protect social tenants not in receipt of housing benefit from increases in service charges.

30 Oct 2025 · Women and Equalities

Employment: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help protect female whistle-blowers in male-dominated industries.

27 Oct 2025 · Cabinet Office

Educational Visits: EU Countries

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has held discussions with the EU on waiving the need for passports for school groups visiting the UK as part of his negotiations on a youth experience scheme.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Students: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to make an assessment of the potential merits of statutory codification of the duty of care to students in higher education.

12 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Patients: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of abolishing NHS England on the NHS’s statutory duty to safeguarding.

28 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Cohabitation: Succession

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to help improve the inheritance rights of unmarried couples in cases were the couple where cohabiters for an extended period.

19 Apr 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Plastics: Waste

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce (a) single-use and (b) other plastic waste.

19 Apr 2024 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to issue his Department's guidance on the circumstances in which exceptions will be made for asylum seekers from countries on the safe list.

19 Apr 2024 · Department for Transport

Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of requiring all (a) e-bikes and (b) e-scooters to be registered to an owner.

19 Apr 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Continuing Care: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure that people eligible for NHS continuing healthcare funding have access to services.

19 Apr 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pancreatic Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of Pancreatic Cancer UK's Optimal Care Pathway recommendations.

19 Apr 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hypnosis and Psychiatry: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that people operating as (a) hypnotherapists and (b) psychotherapists are (i) registered and (ii) regulated.

19 Apr 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade: Bullying

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many allegations of bullying have been made against Ministers by staff in her Department in each of the last 12 months.

26 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Bullying

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many allegations of bullying have been made against Ministers by staff in his Department in each of the last 12 months.

26 Mar 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heat Pumps

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Government meets its heat pump installation targets.

26 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Pupils: Autism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that children with autism are adequately supported at school.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 206 of the policy paper entitled National food strategy for England, updated in July 2021, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the implications for its policies of the

4 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hypnosis and Psychiatry: Registration and Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that any person operating as a (a) hypnotherapist and (b) psychotherapist is (i) registered and (ii) regulated.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Drinking Water: Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to prevent the leaching of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances into supplies of drinking water.

4 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Assessments: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the impact on educational attainment of denial of mitigated circumstances for children whose parent or guardian passed away outside of the current six month cut off pr

4 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to reduce waste of NHS equipment that can be safely reused.

4 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Long Covid

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to support people who have long covid.

Source: official written-questions record.